Shot - he wants to buy Bryco Arms to melt down 70k guns.

[otomik]

Because for the last 30yrs the Left has been treating 'Personal Responsibility' as a Dirty Word?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism

Materialism holds that the world is material, that all phenomena in the universe consist of matter in motion, wherein all things are interdependent and interconnected and develop in accordance with natural law, that the world exists outside us and independently of our perception of it, that thought is a reflection of the material world in the brain.

 

[halvey]

And it will solve...

NOTHING.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Let's say I'm the owner of Bryco. Let's say the company is privately owned, rather than having stock that trades on an exchange. Let's say I think the company is worth about $5 million (just to pick a number).

I hear about this kid's crusade, and the fund-raising to buy the company.

I'm moved, so I agree to reluctantly sell my beloved corporate child for $10 million.

Kid melts down the guns--I take the $10 million and start two new companies--Bryco2 and Suckers Unlimited.

 

[Ironbarr]

That's just plain old capitalism - the American way.

You'd probably have a problem with the name "Bryco2" - infringement, you know. You have heard that word before, no doubt.

-Andy

 

[Dain Bramage]

Is Crapco taken?

 

[Tom Servo]

I might be more indignant if it took more to melt down a Bryco than a lighter and a can of hair spray.

Heck, a quicker way is to put a few rounds through it. That'll mess it up pretty well.

 

[jimpeel]

The little b-----d is still at it

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/12/eveningnews/main629071.shtml

My favorite part of the story:

Ten years ago, when Brandon was seven, one of Bryco's guns misfired, as a family friend was unloading it.

So now it is a "misfire" and the babysitter is termed a "family friend".

1. "Misfire" conotes the weapon was faulty and went off autonomously.

2. "Family friend" takes the argument into the field of the 43:1 Kellerman fallacy.

Get the picture?

My second favorite part is:

Says Brandon's mother, Susan Stansberry, "I'm scared somebody else might turn out to be like Brandon if we don't get these guns off the street."

It was off the street you brain stem! It was in his home. He was shot in his home.

 

[SIGarmed]

I must say that this boy his lawyer and the family are a real peice of work. The babysitter deserves the blame as well as the adults under which their supervision came.

This whole thing has no legitimacy as I see it. This goes along with the anti-capitalist commie way of thinking in California because who'd willingly take a loss by destroying their own company after they buy it.

Its all those bad businesses out there that employee people and put food on the table.

That's what goverments are for!

Where is the outrage at the irresponsibilty regarding the bad parental supervision? I think I can make a good arguement for poor parenting in this case. When I think of this kids parents it disgusts me.

 

[Majic]

Misfire when generally used as a gun term means the gun failed to fire. So the kid got shot by a gun that failed to fire.

 

[N3rday]

Not to be noobish, but what kind of gun are we talking about here? Is it an offbrand of a more popular model? Even if it was the gun's fault, which is extremely unlikely, why the hell was it pointing at someone else?

Cmon, its a handgun. It has maybe 4 buttons. Your microwave has 20. It's not that complex...unload, rack the slide and you're done.

 

[dustind]

Thank you lord for bestowing apon us stupid opponents that waste their money as opposed to using it against us.

N3rday: It was an ultra cheapo pistol. The design like many other pistols is based off of John Moses Browning's popular design.

 

[The_Antibubba]

Speaking of a piece of work

Here is the guy's Website:

http://www.brandonsarms.org


No snide comments from me-I'll let it speak for itself.

 

[Tom Bri]

It is his money. So what. Not like it is a great loss to the firearms buying public. Besides, the former owners have been in and out of the business with how many different companies? They will be back, making the same crappy guns under a new name.

 

[TechBrute]

It sounds like Bankruptcy reform is the way that they need to use their "victim" status:

"Oh, poor me, Senator. I was paralyzed by an incompentant person's negligence, and I couldn't get money from the company that made the gun because of bankruptcy laws. Oh, poor me. You should help reform bankruptcy laws."

 

[Ironbarr]

Another blurb. 10% ?

What's this "10%" percent liable??? Other "articles" talk only of the 50+million as if Bryco had to meet it all. With the capabilities of making and selling "thousands" (70,000?) or "millions"(?), you'd think that 5.1 million wouldn't have bankrupted Bryco.

Methinks the antis had an orgy over this and blew it up for their benefit. A Google search on Bryco Arms will show some "evidence" of that.

http://www.bigclassaction.com/settlement.html?id=60

Bryco Arms. A $51 million dollar verdict has been found in the accidental shooting case filed on behalf of Brandon Maxfield who was shot and paralyzed in 1994. The jury found that the gun manufacturer, Bryco Arms, was ten percent liable, and the gun's distributors were found thirty percent liable. The jury also found the boy's parents thirty percent liable, and the shooter twenty percent liable. Each party will be required to pay their portion of the award if the verdict stands upon appeal. (May-08-03)

 

[TechBrute]

LOL... even the jury found the parents to be more liable than the gun maker...

Of course the fact that they found the maker liable at all calls their intelligence into question.